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Schlosser, Eric – Atlantic Monthly, 1995
California's strawberry industry offers a case study of both California agriculture's dependence on the exploitation of an imported peasantry, and the destructive consequences of the "free market" and a deliberate low-wage economy. Describes a new form of sharecropping, tantamount to debt peonage; lax federal enforcement of existing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Braceros, Farm Labor, Field Crops
